Citations:euphemism


 * 2011 — MSNBC News Anchor Brian Williams 5/3/11 interview with CIA Director Leon Pannetta: " So finer point, one final time, enhanced interrogation techniques, which has always been kind of a handy euphemism in these post-9/11 years. . . . "
 * 2012--McGreal, Chris, Former senior Bush official on torture: 'I think what they did was wrong'  The Guardian, April 5, 2012: "Philip Zelikow, who was the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice's most senior official, told the Guardian that he now regards what officials euphemistically called "enhanced interrogation", such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding, as torture – although he did not use that word at the time and is reluctant to use it now.